saturday, 31 may 2025
RCS Wk28 OSHWA Edinburgh The Nucleus Building, Thomas Bayes Road, EH9 3FG Adafruit is a documentation company… DDSSC (DIY dye sensitized solar cell) Highland Cattle Room Room 2 14:00 to 16:00 Open-source Sigils: Haggis Room Bit late arriving… Touchy Feely Algae: Haggis Room Never made it to this due to DDSSC overrunning as did the Sigils

friday, 12 june 2020

thursday, 19 december 2019
Adafruit Trinket LED Long leg anode (+ve) Mac OS X USB system_profiler SPUSBDataType Will output information on the USB subsystem: Trinket Keyboard: Product ID: 0x2434 Vendor ID: 0x1781 Version: 1.00 Speed: Up to 1.5 Mb/s Manufacturer: Adafruit Location ID: 0x14100000 / 17 Current Available (mA): 500 Current Required (mA): 100 Extra Operating Current (mA): 0 trinket usb

sunday, 21 may 2017
Raspberry Pi 3 Successfully installed OpenBSD on a Raspberry Pi 3, with the help of INSTALL.arm64 and UnDeadly article and serial console, and Adafruit PINOUT diagram . no disk error: need to work out if I can partition the microsd card for an openbsd partition re-ording libraries takes about 3-5mins pi OpenBSD

friday, 16 september 2016
Smallest MAME Arcade An excellent article by Phillip Burgess on Adafruit on small pi-zero power arcade game and the problems of going so small. pi

sunday, 10 january 2016
nfc Finally set up my PN532 breakout board nfc with my raspberry pi. user@raspberrypi ~/libnfc/examples $ sudo ./nfc-poll [sudo] password for fred: /home/fred/libnfc/examples/.libs/lt-nfc-poll uses libnfc libnfc-1.7.1-66-g24979c6 error libnfc.driver.pn532_uart pn53x_check_communication error lt-nfc-poll: ERROR: Unable to open NFC device. This error was due to RX/TX wires being connected wrong to the pi cobbler. user@raspberrypi ~/libnfc/examples $ sudo ./nfc-poll /home/fred/libnfc/examples/.libs/lt-nfc-poll uses libnfc libnfc-1.7.1-66-g24979c6 NFC reader: pn532_uart:/dev/ttyAMA0 opened NFC device will poll during 30000 ms (20 pollings of 300 ms for 5 modulations) ISO/IEC 14443A (106 kbps) target: ATQA (SENS_RES): 00 04 UID (NFCID1): 3b 2f 8a 0c SAK (SEL_RES): 08 nfc_initiator_target_is_present: Target Released Waiting for card removing...done. Device working. Adafruit Learning libnfc libnfc wiki raspberry pi nfc

friday, 10 april 2015
LCD Used the layout from adafruit , to set up my LCD with a potentiomiter, to control brighest. The upgrade to arduino-1.6.3 is proving problematic for me… arduino

wednesday, 1 april 2015
... build a Homemade GPS Antenna adafruit arduino gps ...

wednesday, 25 march 2015
eyeD3 Python library for working with ID3 metadata with mp3. --add-image "file.png:FRONT_COVER" -a "Artist Name" -A "Album Name" -G "Genre" --genre "Genre" -n 1 track number -t "This Song" track title --release-date 2015 --text-frame=TPE2:"Album Artist Name" filename.mp3 compilation albums Arudino Duemilanove Dug out one of my older Duemilanove boards to play with, thus I needed to change the makefile setting to allow upload: ### for an arduino duemilanove UPLOAD_RATE = 57600 PORT = /dev/cuaU2 AVRDUDE_PROGRAMMER = arduino MCU = atmega328p F_CPU = 16000000 VARIANT = standard The only difference between this and the Uno is the upload speeds. Was playing with the Adafruit RTC Breakout board - if you get the SDA and SCL lines round the wrong way you will end up with dates like: 2165/165/165 . python arduino

sunday, 22 march 2015
Scottish Regional BMX Western Titans Excellent days racing - roll on next round - next weekend :~) Arduino When using the Adafruit 2.8" TFT Arduino shield ensure that Adafruit_TFT.h has the following line uncommented: #define USE_ADAFUIT_SHIELD_PINOUT bmx arduino

monday, 5 may 2014
Ztype Final Score: 001404 Accuracy: 84.2% WPM: 38 Higher score - lower accuracy and words per minute… More typing practice required :~) E is for Electronics Colouring Book : from Adafruit

wednesday, 12 february 2014
... from dashes to underscores ( adafruit learning system ) I then received ...

monday, 16 december 2013
... good laughs. Adafruit Goodies My adafruit goodies turned up today - time ...

monday, 4 november 2013
IEC C14 I need to get some IEC C14 (the male version of C13) to make some leads for mum's UPS . MineCraft on OpenBSD To increase the amount of memory available to MineCraft on OpenBSD: ulimit -d 4194304 /usr/local/jdk-1.7.0/bin/java -Xmx2048m -jar /var/games/minecraft/minecraft_server.jar nogui Adafruit DS1307 RTC Finally built my RTC kit from Adafruit. This uses a CR1220 coin cell battery to backup the time. Chromium issue fixed chrome issues resolved thanks Edd - eventually managed to build Chromium 30.0.1599.101 which fixed the issue.

thursday, 9 may 2013
Keyboard Mapping My das keyboard has an Australian key layout so I need to setxkbmap us to find all those useful symbols like pipe ¦ TFT Shield from Adafruit Finally received my 2.8 inch TFT shield from Adafruit , yesterday, and had it working with a test program today! The shield is plugged into a Arduino Uno and used the BSDmakefile to generate the code - needed to add the libraries from Adafruit into the make file, and create a __cxa_pure_virtual() function [ StackOverFlow Explanation ]. Although all the issues with the Makefile were solved by Edd's patch to ports@ message . Pushover Came across Pushover a notification service… tft arduino das keyboard

tuesday, 12 april 2011
MiniPov3 Made the MiniPov v3 which can be purchase from Adafruit this evening. The first real test of my Hakko FX-888 which is an excellent soldering station (more on that later…)

saturday, 12 february 2011
... Aquarellable pencil. EL Wire EL Wire adafruit ...

friday, 23 april 2010
Adafruit Adafruit have create an excellent arduino cheatsheet arduino